Quotes About Religion

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

Sunday in the south means Church. Sunday in this house, even if we lived in California, would still mean church.

If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

It became clear to us early on that Catholic dogma was pretty much a fairy story concocted to satisfy the incurious masses, and we were buying none of it.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

As Stephen Spender put it, "Music is the most powerful of all the idealist drugs except religion.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Wisdom begins with reverence for God." No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).

The phrase 'separation of church and state,' which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America must never have a state religion, not that the state be indifferent to religion.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Deo Gratias" = Thanks to God.

We, the humans, have been exploiting poor voiceless animals for thousands of years - in the name of religion, in the name of science, in the name of sports, in the name of fashion, and last but not the least, in the name of food. Hopefully some day this will come to an end, once we, the humans, appreciate the fact that even the animals have rights too, just like us, the humans. Let's hope that day will arrive soon! - Deo, on 149th anniversary of foundation of ASPCA, April 10, 2015.

It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.